10 Ways to Chill Out

1. Do nothing
2. Drink cool beverages
3. Doze in air-conditioned room
4. Daydream
5. Eat ice cream
6. Read books set in cold places*
7. Take a cold shower
8. Don’t wear any clothes
9. Listen to cool jazz
10. Think cool thoughts

*10 Cool Books to Beat the Heat:

1. Call of the Wild – Jack London
2. Bodies in Winter – Robert Knightly
3. Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
4. Winter Solstice – Rosamunde Pilcher
5. Fear Itself – Elena Santangelo
6. Italian Shoes – Henning Mankell
7. The Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
8. Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge
9. Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight series
10. Anything by a Russian novelist…

Robin Hathaway